Eduardo Gargiulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can I lists the available packages on my Debian CDs with apt-get? >Supose I need to install XWindow, how should I know which packages I >have to install?
apt-cache search whatever I found that the investment of time in learning dselect was well worth it, as it's a lot easier to browse with than command-line apt. You could try something like console-apt instead. There are other tools: 'dpkg --help' lists various search functions, and if you install the grep-dctrl package you'll get the excellent tools grep-available and grep-status. For any of these, you should make sure you always use 'dselect update' instead of 'apt-get update'. When dselect is configured to use apt, as it is now by default, 'dselect update' calls 'apt-get update' and then *also* updates dpkg's notion of available packages, so it's always worth using it instead. Also note that on potato (2.2) systems you can run 'tasksel' to choose from the selection of common tasks you get at installation time. Note that it doesn't seem to check what tasks are already installed, but that's OK as if you already have the task then it won't reinstall it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
